I am politely calling B.S. on this one.
(We are in the South, right? Bless their hearts!)
I screen-captured that yesterday, so in 65 days, NDOT repaired 6,700 potholes or about 103 potholes a day, 4 and a quarter holes an hour. Two things, that would require a bunch of teams blocking roads and making the traffic even crappier than it is right now and secondly, you would be able to see actual patched potholes somewhere! So far, not that many and the most memorable potholes and trenches are still there growing and making the ride miserable for everybody. I kid you not, there are potholes in highways crisscrossing Nashville old enough to be considered toddlers and I know because I met them when I moved to Middle TN three and a half years ago.
And the photo does not make you all happy/fuzzy with the repair job. It looks like “OK fellas, remember only one 5-gallon bucket of asphalt per hole and that’s it. More is wasting time, and I want to make it to Happy Hour. Miller, tamp that shit and let’s go!”
San Francisco by the Cumberland.
Oh, now, I'm sure they repaired just as many potholes as they said they did.
What they didn't say - and I have to admire the humility here - is that for every two potholes they repaired, they carefully placed three new potholes, lovingly curated in size, placement and depth so as to retain the local character of their natural environment.
So who is lying in the reporting? Crew foremen, managers, department heads, or politicians? How far up or down the chain do you figure the rot goes?
Heh. Look closely in some not repaired and you may find Civil War mementos. :-)